That sounds disturbingly like my iBook, which in the end apparently has a bad hd controller, which means the logic board is toast. Run your system diagnostic disk (it's either a separate disk, or on...
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That sounds disturbingly like my iBook, which in the end apparently has a bad hd controller, which means the logic board is toast. Run your system diagnostic disk (it's either a separate disk, or on...
Fugu is nice. I use it on a G4 mini to move files to/from work.
Alternately, sftp/ftp from a terminal work like they should on any proper BSD system.
>>but what is the accuracy rate of getting a perfect exposure with a digital camera vs. one with a Sekonic meter and film?
Personal experience says pretty much even, possibly with the edge to the...
FWIW, I've sent them email or called with questions about an item, and they were able (after a few hours) to get back to me with a description of the actual item. Saved me from buying an ugly mamiya...
I started with one of those, and was very happy with it. It covers 4x5 with some movements, though it goes soft before it runs out of image circle. I'm very pleased with the negatives I got with...
FWIW, I had the privilege of helping to hang the Edward Weston exhibit at Drew University 20 years ago, and so was able to spend time with the prints before we got onto the walls. We used to run a...
Personally, I got into LF for the movements and the tonality, with the ability to make viewable contact prints close behind. Sharpness is important, but if that was my only criteria I'd give up...
Doesn't Mahler at XVII crack your glass plates, or am I mixing my artforms?
Seriously, the high-altitude western versus eastern interpretation is one I find interesting, since growing up in PA...
Burke and James, Bender, Seneca, Agfa-Ansco (singularly or combined), MPP, BuschPressman.
QT is probably right about waiting, especially as Intel has announced the quad-core chip with the same power envelope. OTOH, the 2.66 GHz is currently at a nice point price-wise.
Having said...
Depends on the moss. Out here we have bright yellow-green moss which grows in the yard (#11 or #8 lightens, #25 doesn't do much because of the yellow component), and blue-green little hummocks out...
A related question: has anyone made a recessed lensboard for a B&J 5x7 wooden tailboard? Lots of room to maneuver (relatively), but out of production long enough that I'm not sure there ever was one.
Living down here in Binghamton, I can honestly say I'd generally rather have a Polarizer+81B on the camera, than to turn down the colors to how they "truly are". Of course, I shoot mostly color, so...
Darn, I'd forgotten how easy to load a 126 cartridge was. To bad they didn't adopt that system back in '26 or so for 120/220.
The idea of pictures self-organizing themselves into narratives would...
I think the biggest worry I've ever had was that they were going to find the bag of fresh fruit we were carrying for the trip (Chicago -> NE PA via Ontario). The advantage of home-built (Bender) or...
Having always been a Moosehead photographer (go out in the woods, shoot a moose, hang it on the wall), I would personally appreciate articles showing layout of camera, lights, movements, etc, for...
Just curious, but where do you guys stand on the old Calumet 4x5 monorails? (I'm not in the market, but I see one every now and then) I used one years ago and my only memory is "heavy". (and I...
A wave from scenic Binghamton to you guys, even if you are a little too close to Albany for comfort.
I don't see why; I had some data from the start of my graduate career that I had to deliberately decide not to copy to a new harddrive last time. It was about 17 years old and should have been...
>>I think the real promise of the Mac is that you'll spend far fewer hours screaming at it than you did your PC.
I find my self screaming at it less, and often settling for, "Now, now, stop...
I'm running Safari on 10.4.5 and 10.4.6, and seeing the favicon (camera on a tripod with red belows, right). What version of Safari and OS-X are you running?
Regarding the Moulding:
When I was in Chicago, I heard it discussed that some of that moulding, even if you could get it made, wouldn't be allowed now because of the amount of it that comes...
Hello,
So, I was browsing the lighting aisle of Home Depot recently, and thinking about setting up to do some simple contact printing, using VC paper. Therefore: does anyone have any...
As morning fluff articles go, it wasn't bad, but I was ready to snort my coffee when they opened with repeated references to Tri-X in the past tense. I bought some recently, and I'm pretty sure it...
It's often good to be a procastinating photographer. I'm sure my 203mm Ektar took a much smaller bite out of my budget than it did to its first owner back in '47.
I'm not sure this qualifies as an answer; more probably an anecdote.
I have hanging in my office a picture I made in color several years back on the Maine coast. It's of particularly neutral-grey...
Emre,
I've shot 400 Tmax in 120, (my budget doesn't currently permit it in 4x5), and found it behaves very nicely in XTol 1:1, per the massive dev chart times. Your local shop probably just...
What about a 210 or 240 G-Claron, or a Ysaron? Those are optimized for close-up work, and are comfortably small and light.
I built a bender 4x5 a few years back, and would say that it's a real camera, but it's not a fancy, modern, camera. With mine I have two issues: (1) the springs on the back needed to be tightened so...
4x5: 127mm Ysaron. Surprisingly large image circle, considering it came from a copy-camera. Augmented it within a year with a 203 7.7 Ektar, which better fit my field of view.
Treating this as a front-porch kind of question on a lazy day (you'd freeze if you tried that up here at the moment, but so be it...) I'd borrow a copy of "primitive photography" from my local...
Just a minor point: that aperture difference is a whopping 1/2 stop. You'll never notice it in the field.
You don't say what type of photography you prefer, or camera you'll hang it on, so my...
Personally, I caligraph a little on the side, and hack around in the garden. I agree with Struan, to a point, but I'm a structural chemist, so we tend to get various pictures as a byproduct of the...
When I was a kid, those were sought after for astrophotography. Emission Nebulae reproduce very well in B&W with them. Might not be your cup of decaf, but certainly a thought.
Personally,...
Let's not forget that ether fumes will also form peroxides with exposed metal in your storage cabinets/refrigerators. When I did wet synthesis we considered any can more than a few weeks old to be...
To paraphrase St. Ansel, the color saturation in nature isn't as high as it appears. I've shot with a #15 or #25 in the Arizona desert near Tuscon, and the rocks, while somewhat lighter, don't wash...
An obvious, and probably idiotic, question:
If you're going to make a copy/knock-off of a camera, why not copy Burke & James (or Deardorff) in LF-wood, or Graflex SuperGraphics, in metal/technical...
Tim, Jorge,
Actually, I first heard about this back in college, then again when Dave Barry ran a column about the practice, asking, "who, other than Geraldo Rivera in search of higher ratings,...
Of course you can get high licking them; the pigments are made from Australian Cane Toads mixed with California Hemp.
"... why is pt/pd so much in demand these days?"
Probably because it has a certain look, caused by the different tonal scale, color of the image, and quite frequently the brushstrokes and minor...